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Direct linkJohnson, Elizabeth K. – Infancy, 2005
Retaining detailed representations of unstressed syllables is a logical prerequisite for infants' use of probabilistic phonotactics to segment iambic words from fluent speech. The head-turn preference study was used to investigate the nature of English- learners' representations of iambic word onsets. Fifty-four 10.5-month-olds were familiarized…
Descriptors: Infants, English, Language Acquisition, Syllables
